The 16 to 1 Gold Mine has been closed for years and it is doubtful it will ever reopen except to give tours through certain sections of the mine. This is one of California's most famous gold mines and was a bellwether during the later years of the gold rush as it was a top producing gold mine. Most of the gold recovered at his mine was melted down but a number of gold specimens were saved from the smelter and this one is a greta example of the brilliant crystalline gold that was found there.
Item# 1359
Weight: 13.5 grams
There is gold and then there is GOLD! Not all gold was created equal. At GoldNuggetsForSale.com we spend most of our time seeking out the world’s finest gold nuggets and gold specimens.
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-Only about 2% of the gold in the world is in “gold nugget” form and the other 98% is microscopic speck and flake gold found in ore. A good gold ore today will have about one ounce of gold for every two tons of rock.
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Even rarer are crystallized gold specimens and only about 0.04% of the gold in the world is crystallized. These natural gold nuggets and gold specimens are true - one of a kind - masterpieces from the earth’s natural elements and are found mostly in pockets where the gold was able to crystallize while it formed, much the same way other crystals form deep inside the earth.
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Most of the hard rock mines that uncovered these extremely rare gold nugget crystals are closed today, and it is extremely rare to have a new discovery of crystallized gold nuggets or gold specimens.
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At Goldnuggetsforsale.com, we are experts on natural gold nuggets and gold specimens and guarantee all our gold nuggets and gold specimens are natural and not man-made.
